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Inspired by a student’s request in January 2010, this is a missing-links page for early years of Radford University’s Whim Internet Magazine. The list and images are mostly from archive.org’s copy of a now-defunct index at the magazine’s old address, kept from 2001 to 2005.

Note to former Whim staff members and other archive-searchers: If Radford’s own servers no longer have a copy of a page, you may be able to find it at archive.org with some sleuthing. At various times, Radford’s Web server has been addressable as “www.cs.runet.edu” or “www.runet.edu” or “www.radford.edu” — and for some reason archive.org copies of the pages for a given date may show up at one version of the address, but not others. For example, compare the lists of captured pages at these addresses:

The first two include the same final page from 2005, but in other years the page was captured on different dates using different addresses. Since this page is static list, there shouldn’t be much difference between versions, but — moral of the story — if you are searching for story pages, try variations on RU server addresses before giving up.

Original archive editor’s note: “Archived articles and graphics may not coordinate with the original designs and layouts.”

(Side note… or “sighed” note: For six years the intro paragraph of the archive page misspelled the word “separate,” saying archived pages would appear in a “seperate browser window.” Please abandon that tradition! While editing this page in July 2010, I was relieved to see that I’d spelled it correctly the first time, but mistakes do happen to even the best editors.)

I am looking for an article (the featured article) that I wrote for the Whim “Life” section. Issue 8, Season 19. Here is a link to the page, but when I click on the article it doesn’t open it…. http://www.radford.edu/~whim/life/ready08.html

Thanks to Glen Flanagan for importing my blog page of 1997-2005 Whim links, which is what you see above. (Also archived at: http://stepno.wordpress.com/wp/old-whims/) I only hope more recent years’ contributions to Whim were preserved during the transition to the current WordPress site.

If not, get someone to dig into WordPress’s PHP templates and set something up for the future! (And advise staff members to save their own copies of their work for their professional portfolios…)